Posts Tagged: Lexmark International
Questions Raised by the Lexmark Decision
Licensing a product instead of selling it may also be a tool for avoiding international patent exhaustion. It is common to distribute software via license, and this …
Enforcing Post-Sale Restrictions After Lexmark: Contracts and Antitrust Issues
Like Lexmark, many technology companies rely on aftermarket revenue streams to fund ongoing investments in research and development needed to remain competitive in hotly contested technology markets. …
Patent Exhaustion at the Supreme Court: Industry Reaction to Impression Products v. Lexmark
Bob Stoll: ''And it is the international exhaustion holding that is particularly troubling. Sales abroad act independently from the US patent system and there is no impact …
Supreme Court rules Lexmark sales exhausted patent rights domestically and internationally
The Supreme Court determined that when a patent owner sells a product the sale exhausted patent rights in the item being sold regardless of any restrictions the …
Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Impression Products v. Lexmark International
On Tuesday, March 21st, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. The case surrounding the sale and resale …
Supreme Court of the United States to Hear Oral Arguments in Patent Exhaustion Case
On March 21, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments for the case of Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. The Court will …
Restricted Sales Do Not Exhaust Patent Rights Under Supreme Court Rulings
The Federal Circuit took the case en banc to review the applicability of the patent exhaustion doctrine under Mallinckrodt and Jazz Photo, in view of the Supreme …
CAFC reaffirms patent exhaustion doctrine cases en banc in Lexmark Int’l v. Impression Products
In a painfully long decision that at one point analyzed a 1628 statement of Lord Coke as relating to British common-law principles and what light that might shed …
